Printing advice please

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I'm having a bit of a printing nightmare at the minute which I need resolving tomorrow. Someone I know wants an A6 design printed out on card. He only actually wants 20 items printed so I was just going to print 10 sheets with 2 on each.

The problem I have is that I bought some matte finish 200g paper which isn't really working well with my inkjet printer no matter what setting I apply. It's as if the paper is soaking the ink in and the printout looks very dull and not what I was after. It works fine on thick glossy finish paper but he needs to be able to write on the printout and a glossy finish doesn't really take ink from a pen very well.

I'm going to go out and look for some card with maybe a different finish etc tomorrow but other than that I'm not sure if there's much else I can do. Do you think I'm going to have to go to an external printer? I've never asked one if they could print out such a little amount as 10 sheets though.

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Cheers for the help guys. I got it sorted after realising it was the lack of coating on the paper that was causing the problem. Ended up paying Â£9.50 for 25 sheets of 240g/m2 matt paper. It was the cheapest I could find and the end product was exactly what I was after. Looked like they'd just came from the printers.